Next Prev Next Enter Your Search Terms Below Putting your search in quotes will search on the entire phrase - like "15th New Jersey". Limit to the first 10 20 50All results. Fox's Regimental Losses SEVENTIETH NEW YORK INFANTRY—" FIRST EXCELSIOR." SICKLES'S BRIGADE - HOOKER'S DIVISION-- THIRD COUPS. (1) COL. DANIEL E. SICKLES ; BVT. MAJOH-GEN.. U. 8. A. (3) Coi.. WILLIAM DWKillT ; BUIU.-GKN., U. S. V. (3) COL. J. E. FAKNUM; BVT. BIUO.-GKN., U. S. V. Losses. Officers. En. Men. Total. Killed and mortally wounded 9 j8i igo Died of disease, accidents, etc 2 c 2 54 Died in Confederate prisons I0 10 Totals ii 243 254 Total enrollment, 1,462 ; killed, 190 ; 12.9 per cent. Battles. KilU-d. Wounded* Missing.\ Total. Yorktown, Va 2 .. 2 Williamsburg, Va 79 138 113 330 Fair Oaks, Va 2 15 i 18 Oak Grove, Va 3 i o i 14 Malvern H ill, Va i . . i Bristoe Station, Va. (1862) 5 Manassas, Va i 12 i o 23 Fredericksburg, Va 4 . . 4 Chancellorsville, Va 4 11 17 32 Gettysburg, Pa 20 93 4 117 Wapping I leights, Va 11 21 .. 32 Mine Hun, Va i 7 Wilderness, Va 4 i <S 5 27 Spotsylvania, Va 2 31 i o 43 North Anna, and Totopotomoy, Va . . i o 'Includes the mortally wounded, tlncludes the captured. Totals 129 376 161 666 Present, also, at Stafford Court House ; Glendale ; Chantilly ; Cold Harbor ; Petersburg. NOTES. — Recruited in New York City, and musterd into service June 20, 1861, as the First Regiment, Sickles's Brigade. It left the brigade camp on Staten Island, July 23, 1861, and was stationed at Washington a few weeks, after which it performed guard duty along the Maryland side of the Lower Potomac. During the Peninsular campaign the Excelsior Brigade was in Hooker's Division, upon which fell the brunt of the battle at Williamsburg, the Seventieth, under Colonel Dvvight, being in the thickest of the fighting. The regiment numbered there, according to the official report, about 700 men, and its casualty list shows a loss of nearly one-half. One more such fight would have ended its existence. Of 33 officers, in that battle, seven were killed and twenty-two wounded. Colonel Farnum commanded the regiment at Gettysburg, where it fought in Humphreys's Division, on the Emmettsburg Road in the battle of the second day, and sustained a severe loss before it yielded this advanced position and retired to the second line. During the pursuit of I>ee, the Excelsior Brigade, on July 23, 1863, attacked the Confederate rear-guard at Wapping Heights, Va., a fight in which the main loss fell on the Seven tieth. Upon the transfer of the Third Corps to the Second, the brigade, under command of Colonel W. R. Brewster, was assigned to Mott's Division, and from that time fought with the Second Corps until the expiration of its term of service. It was mustered out July i, 1864, and the recruits transferred to the Eighty-sixth New York. _06006
